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the los angeles times reports last week, 59% of the votes on the fiscal cliff that voted no came from republicans in the south. a majority of republicans from outside the south supported the deal. and on sandy disaster aid, 56% of the no votes came from southern republicans. that's despite passionate support for the bill. from republicans in the north ooet. the etiological base of the gop is now in the old south. just listen to one of their newest stars, the tea party senator from texas, ted cruz. >> the reason i am a conservative is because conservative policies work. i think common sense needs more common sense and principle. >> washington doesn't need more compromise? this is from the guy who's supposed to be their bright new star? no wonder john boehner can't handle the right wing from his party. they're disconnected from what the rest of the country wants. no wonder boehner says i need this job like i need a hole in the head. joan boehner has the job nobody wants. head of the incredible shrink g gop. joining me now is krystal ball and dana millbank and an msnbc analyst. thank you
the los angeles times reports last week, 59% of the votes on the fiscal cliff that voted no came from republicans in the south. a majority of republicans from outside the south supported the deal. and on sandy disaster aid, 56% of the no votes came from southern republicans. that's despite passionate support for the bill. from republicans in the north ooet. the etiological base of the gop is now in the old south. just listen to one of their newest stars, the tea party senator from texas, ted...
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just on the fiscal cliff. >> so right now, the republicans are vulnerable. they don't have any leverage and the only people who have figured that out are senate republicans. they want to shut down the government even know newt gingrich says that was crazy when we did it before and they're on this path to do that. no, but it is. i want to read you something -- >> not the senate -- >> she is saying we may have to give the rank and file a government shutdown. >> lots of ways to do the government shutdown. it may come in the context of the continuing resolution. there's lots of cliffs that we are coming up upon right now, so she was i think specifically vague in that case. listen, the republicans and the democrats and the white house and the markets know that it is very dicey for the president to try to do this and it would create havoc in the market. it's likely unconstitutional. you don't know whether the debt issued under that is going to hold up is going to be justifiable. i think that would create absolute havoc, plus, there would be a political fire storm.
just on the fiscal cliff. >> so right now, the republicans are vulnerable. they don't have any leverage and the only people who have figured that out are senate republicans. they want to shut down the government even know newt gingrich says that was crazy when we did it before and they're on this path to do that. no, but it is. i want to read you something -- >> not the senate -- >> she is saying we may have to give the rank and file a government shutdown. >> lots of...
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i mean, the fiscal cliff was a friendly family discussion compared to this hatfield/mccoy environment that's unfolding with regard to spending. >> so you think this whole story is going to have some real heart-stopping moments for the markets? >> i think there will be huge consequences. recall that in the summer of 2011 the last time we faced this that the dow went down 1800 points in july and august. now, granted there were some other issues in europe that were a concern. but we could see some serious consequences as a result of these -- this inability to have a discussion on spending cuts. >> i know you're a bond specialist, but apple reducing their iphone orders and so forth. apple fell 3.5% today. $18 to 501. is this apple reduction in ipad orders, is this symbolic of an economy that's getting weaker? >> well, i think so. i think -- well, we have heard some people say that, yes, it's part apple. the company. but also, i think it is symbolic of just people not having enough certainty of what kind of money they will have in the future to spend on items such as what apple offers. >>
i mean, the fiscal cliff was a friendly family discussion compared to this hatfield/mccoy environment that's unfolding with regard to spending. >> so you think this whole story is going to have some real heart-stopping moments for the markets? >> i think there will be huge consequences. recall that in the summer of 2011 the last time we faced this that the dow went down 1800 points in july and august. now, granted there were some other issues in europe that were a concern. but we...
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this fiscal cliff is a big step forward in the fight for fairness. now is not a perfect deal by any stretch. but let's be clear. for the first time in 20 years, taxes will go up for the rich. the president's call for more balance, more fairness, that is at the hard of this deal. that's what the house finally passed last night and is what president obama will sign into law. >> that's what will remain in place as long as i am pthd. everyone pays their fair share. everyone does their part. >> everyone pays their fair share. and everyone does their part. that's what president obama won in this deal for the country. first, he forced republicans to raise taxes on those earning more than $400,000 a year. he also extended unemployment benefits to 2 million americans who are out of work. people who desperately need help now. and he extended the stimulus tax break for working hch cla ingwos all across the country. the president did this without cuts in our safety net. the deal delays the automatic spending cuts for the start of the year and it doesn't include
this fiscal cliff is a big step forward in the fight for fairness. now is not a perfect deal by any stretch. but let's be clear. for the first time in 20 years, taxes will go up for the rich. the president's call for more balance, more fairness, that is at the hard of this deal. that's what the house finally passed last night and is what president obama will sign into law. >> that's what will remain in place as long as i am pthd. everyone pays their fair share. everyone does their part....
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the other thing to keep in mind is with the fiscal cliff vote, wolf, you're exactly right, only 85% of the republicans voted for, the majority of the republican caucus did not vote for the fiscal cliff package. but when it comes to the politics of this and support for the speakers, many people gave him a pass. they feel that they understood where they were with the fiscal cliff. republicans had the leverage. they feel that they have the rev lage here and they don want to give it up. it's a very delicate dance that the speaker is going to have to do to convince the republicans that they do have leverage, but how far are they willing to take it. patience is running out among house republicans with the speaker about just how many times they're willing to say okay fine, we'll talk about the next fight. >> brianna keeler is in the east room right now, brianna, i don't know about you, but i only found out about this news conference this morning, was this one of these last-minute decisions? what's going on over there? >> we found out with very short notice that president obama would be giving
the other thing to keep in mind is with the fiscal cliff vote, wolf, you're exactly right, only 85% of the republicans voted for, the majority of the republican caucus did not vote for the fiscal cliff package. but when it comes to the politics of this and support for the speakers, many people gave him a pass. they feel that they understood where they were with the fiscal cliff. republicans had the leverage. they feel that they have the rev lage here and they don want to give it up. it's a very...
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. >> ed, the end of 2012, all about the fiscal cliff. right now we're talking about the debt ceiling discussion ahead. how tough of a fight is president obama going to be coming home will to? >> oh, a very tough one because republicans now determined more than ever to get spending cuts as part of the fiscal deal on the fiscal cliff. the president said he's not negotiating over it and the new congress began making it very clear that spending cuts will be what they focus on like a laser in the coming months as negotiations continue. mitch mcconnell look at the incoming class of house republicans as well who voted, many of them against the bill on friday that provided $9 billion in flood relief to sandy. they did it because there weren't spending cuts. >> jonathan, how is the fiscal cliff fight, how might that shape the debt ceiling fight for republicans? >> it's everything to them in terms of they feel as it was pointed out before that they didn't get the spending cuts they wanted. they see the debt ceiling coming up in the early couple of
. >> ed, the end of 2012, all about the fiscal cliff. right now we're talking about the debt ceiling discussion ahead. how tough of a fight is president obama going to be coming home will to? >> oh, a very tough one because republicans now determined more than ever to get spending cuts as part of the fiscal deal on the fiscal cliff. the president said he's not negotiating over it and the new congress began making it very clear that spending cuts will be what they focus on like a...
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it has to be a default, a shutdown, or a fiscal cliff -- >> the very last second. >> right. there are so many problems that they can't solve and we've created a place now where even -- even newtown was what it took to start talking about gun egsslegs. it has to be either reactionary or a crisis. gwen: newtown is what got the republicans back to the table before. >> we're at a place where it's now difficult for congressional to pass things like transportation bills which used to be very easy to pass the gwen: farm bill? >> farm bill, another great example. a lot of this was extensions of current laws. they didn't reinvent the wheels in this. it was keeping everything the same. gwen: you don't sound optimistic here. >> i'm not optimistic. this was a very discouraging fight and i think that this was the easy one. if we default on our debt, we are in a bad way both economically and sort of what it says about the state of our government. >> i think the irony is we've just sworn in a new congress, the most diverse, broadest spectrum of people represented but the ideological middle
it has to be a default, a shutdown, or a fiscal cliff -- >> the very last second. >> right. there are so many problems that they can't solve and we've created a place now where even -- even newtown was what it took to start talking about gun egsslegs. it has to be either reactionary or a crisis. gwen: newtown is what got the republicans back to the table before. >> we're at a place where it's now difficult for congressional to pass things like transportation bills which used...
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what do you think of obama now reelected, he wins the fiscal cliff debate, he's going into new negotiations. he seems emboldened, unencumbered about having to run for reelection. >> hey, af li have a lot of respect for the guy. and i liked romney, he did not resonate. and obama played the rich guy/poor guy. there are a lot more poor people than rich people. even though the job creators are what historically made this whole thing work, but i have a lot of respect for obama. people think i don't respect him. i respect him a lot. i think his story is an amazing story, what people like him or don't like him? he ran a tough campaign. >> he ran a tough campaign. took a long time for romney to get tough and they told him please don't be so tough at the first debate and he disappeared. such a fine man with a fine family and he disappeared, something happened after the first debate. he did a wonderful job. now they're saying they told him to take it easy. i don't know if that's true, sean, it's hard to believe that it's true because that's common sense, also. >> sean: i was told they thought they we
what do you think of obama now reelected, he wins the fiscal cliff debate, he's going into new negotiations. he seems emboldened, unencumbered about having to run for reelection. >> hey, af li have a lot of respect for the guy. and i liked romney, he did not resonate. and obama played the rich guy/poor guy. there are a lot more poor people than rich people. even though the job creators are what historically made this whole thing work, but i have a lot of respect for obama. people think i...
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cliff deal. so i'm told by reliable republican sources that he simply felt the last thing he could do politically for internal politics was to put a vote on the floor right afterwards with $60 billion in new spending that's not paid for. so that's the reason why you heard chris christie in new jersey really getting personal and really talking about palace intrigue and intraparty politics because that's really what went on. it was just the feeling that it was just too much tumult in a an already toxic environment when it comes to spending. >> but i'm not sure if i understand whether it was just sort of displeasing tumult or whether it was tumult that would actually jeopardize getting an actual bill. because i didn't see that point being made. and if that's what the speaker meant, if that was the merit of his argument for not holding that vote, why didn't he say that? >> reporter: you know, his aides have been saying that, or said it this morning. but it certainly wasn't telegraphed in a big way. y
cliff deal. so i'm told by reliable republican sources that he simply felt the last thing he could do politically for internal politics was to put a vote on the floor right afterwards with $60 billion in new spending that's not paid for. so that's the reason why you heard chris christie in new jersey really getting personal and really talking about palace intrigue and intraparty politics because that's really what went on. it was just the feeling that it was just too much tumult in a an already...
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cliff negotiation gang. the caption of the photo says this, quote, the only woman facing the with the was, very closely, valerie jarrett. do you see valerie jarrett in the photo? she is right there in near jay carney. it's valerie jarrett's leg. her left leg is sticking out from behind the guy in the blue and white shirt standing next to jay carney. she appears to be wearing black tights maybe or leggings. but funny as it is, the trickery is not why it became notorious today, and it's not why they put it on the front page of the "new york times." it's because out of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11 senior staff members advising the president in this photo, only one of the people barely in this photo is a woman. last month president obama held a press conference to announce he is nominating senator john kerry to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. so john kerry not susan rice. earlier this week, the president announcing that former republican senator chuck hagel was his
cliff negotiation gang. the caption of the photo says this, quote, the only woman facing the with the was, very closely, valerie jarrett. do you see valerie jarrett in the photo? she is right there in near jay carney. it's valerie jarrett's leg. her left leg is sticking out from behind the guy in the blue and white shirt standing next to jay carney. she appears to be wearing black tights maybe or leggings. but funny as it is, the trickery is not why it became notorious today, and it's not why...
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when you look at the fiscal cliff, it's most definitely been crisis g cris crisis governance. i think it's a way that makes really good common sense. the american people are clearly on his side on this. he can definitely win, not only the future, like the theme of the speech was last time, but, really, he can win with being a really common sense -- taking a common sense approach to political governance. even though the 39 is not campaigning, he's not on the ballot this yeerp, he's certainly campaigning for votes on the house and the senate floor. and he's campaigning for the support and the influence ofts american people. he definitely needs them on his side and he has a great opportunity on tuesday to lay out a framework. >> let me ask you this, e.j. a lot of gun violence, family victims, will be there. will this be a very awkward problem? an awkward situation? for your pro-gun right wingers, when the president is laying out his agenda and you have victim family members sitting there and the right wing usually sits there without applauding, without responding, how will they b
when you look at the fiscal cliff, it's most definitely been crisis g cris crisis governance. i think it's a way that makes really good common sense. the american people are clearly on his side on this. he can definitely win, not only the future, like the theme of the speech was last time, but, really, he can win with being a really common sense -- taking a common sense approach to political governance. even though the 39 is not campaigning, he's not on the ballot this yeerp, he's certainly...
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now the fiscal cliff is coming and we're all going to shoot off the fiscal cliff like thelma and louise and we're holding hands with grover norquist and everybody's crying mostly because the lose in the sixty six thunderbird to the grand canyon but the republicans even though they lost the election even though they lost seats in the house and lost seats in the senate they still refused to negotiate and they're being held hostage by their far right wing and that hasn't changed and it might might change next year but i don't i don't think so and loose with what about the polarization let's say in france right now after the election because the sitting president is not very popular right now. it's complicated because you you get a kind of windshield wiper effect in france you get one we can which the president sporty and the president himself are doing extremely badly for instance you have the steel works. with mr lakshmi mittal the fact that basically the president and the prime minister the minister for industry all had different theories about what to do and how to try and keep jobs int
now the fiscal cliff is coming and we're all going to shoot off the fiscal cliff like thelma and louise and we're holding hands with grover norquist and everybody's crying mostly because the lose in the sixty six thunderbird to the grand canyon but the republicans even though they lost the election even though they lost seats in the house and lost seats in the senate they still refused to negotiate and they're being held hostage by their far right wing and that hasn't changed and it might might...
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we saw this on the fiscal cliff. the extremity of the language and the fact that the house couldn't pass something because a group of people on the right in the house didn't want it passed compromised john boehner in getting a better deal for their side. i think it's the same thing here. when you have wayne la pierre and david keene saying these crazy things, it compromises the negotiating position of people who do have an argument against certain restrictions. >> do you agree with that, meagan? >> i think there's a great theory called the baptist and -- where you have on the one hand the bootleggers love prohibition because it's great for business, and the baptists like prohibition because they're idealogically against it. >> it's great for your business. >> for the nra, look, this is how they fundraise. i guarantee that letter brought money pouring in. if you have seen what has happened to the gun market since newtown, you can't get high capacity magazines for love or money. i have not tested this personally, but i
we saw this on the fiscal cliff. the extremity of the language and the fact that the house couldn't pass something because a group of people on the right in the house didn't want it passed compromised john boehner in getting a better deal for their side. i think it's the same thing here. when you have wayne la pierre and david keene saying these crazy things, it compromises the negotiating position of people who do have an argument against certain restrictions. >> do you agree with that,...
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so if you shut down, you really have to -- if you thought the fiscal cliff was something, that's nothing compared to what we're going through right now. >> all right, suze, hang with us, stay with us. we're going to, of course, talk about personal finances. the government trying to dig its way out of this financial hole. a lot of folks just asking, how do you get your own financial house in order. suze will stay with us and talk about some consumer tips, up next. and it tastes really good! [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobster's 30 shrimp for just $11.99! choose any two of five savory shrimp selections, like mango jalapeÑo shrimp and parmesan crunch shrimp. two delicious shrimp selections on one plate! all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. 30 shrimp, just $11.99 for a limited time. wow, that's a lot of shrimp. i'm ryon stewart, i'm the ultimate shrimp lover, and i sea food differently. i had[ designer ]eeling enough of just covering upover, my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to p
so if you shut down, you really have to -- if you thought the fiscal cliff was something, that's nothing compared to what we're going through right now. >> all right, suze, hang with us, stay with us. we're going to, of course, talk about personal finances. the government trying to dig its way out of this financial hole. a lot of folks just asking, how do you get your own financial house in order. suze will stay with us and talk about some consumer tips, up next. and it tastes really...
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>> well, i think that it was pretty much baked in that we weren't going to go over the fiscal cliff, where all the spending would be cut, all the taxes would be raised. i was on i think two months ago and this came up briefly. i didn't see much of a chance of us doing that. the amount of egg that would be on a politician's face if they didn't come up with some agreement would be something that they weren't going to deal with. they came to a resolution. >> but they didn't do anything about debt growth. >> no. and that's the problem. i was talking about kind of how house spending is the big issue. it's easy to be the big hero. i'm keeping your taxes low by avoiding the fiscal cliff. any politician could have that discussion, i kept your taxes low but the spending side is always a stickler. the problem is it always comes down to entitlements. nobody wants to touch that until we get that handled, we'll continue with debt issues. >> people are concerned about retirement and about investment tax incentives. >> sure. that was affected very minorly. if you were above $400,000, your capital g
>> well, i think that it was pretty much baked in that we weren't going to go over the fiscal cliff, where all the spending would be cut, all the taxes would be raised. i was on i think two months ago and this came up briefly. i didn't see much of a chance of us doing that. the amount of egg that would be on a politician's face if they didn't come up with some agreement would be something that they weren't going to deal with. they came to a resolution. >> but they didn't do anything...
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cliff? >> i would have absolutely voted yes. i would have been unhesitant to vote yes. it was, again, the right thing to do. you look at the jobs report that came out today that showed that construction jobs for the first time are showing an uptick. you look at the real estate market and what is going on with existing home sales. the economy is going in the right direction. the president has done a great job to get things back ontrack. but we need to keep moving forward in that direction and so i would have voted yes. >> you'll be a busy man in a busy congress certainly with a lot of big issues ahead of you. you have the federal deficit, spending cuts, debt ceiling. if the last congress had so many challenges producing a bill to avoid the fiscal cliff do you think this congress will be more productive and if so why? >> you know, i think that remains to be seen. i think that, again, that congressmen need to hear from their constituents and people need to know that, hey, we sent you guys up th
cliff? >> i would have absolutely voted yes. i would have been unhesitant to vote yes. it was, again, the right thing to do. you look at the jobs report that came out today that showed that construction jobs for the first time are showing an uptick. you look at the real estate market and what is going on with existing home sales. the economy is going in the right direction. the president has done a great job to get things back ontrack. but we need to keep moving forward in that direction...
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the december jobs report will be released today and in spite of the challenges of the fiscal cliff and hurricane sandy, economists are predicting 150,000 new jobs. that will remain at 7.7% unemployment. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with more on this. >> reporter: mara, good morning. holiday hiring and shopping could also have some play into all that. we'll know in about an hour and a half what those new job numbers look like. 150, 160,000 new jobs is what we're hearing. but the jobless rate 7.7% expected to stay about the same. there are a number of things we do know that could have some impact here, adp says private job growth was about 215,000 in the last month. weekly unemployment claims up about 10,000. we also now know retail sales were up more than expected about 4.5%. again probably that holiday boom. auto sales were up about 9% and that's something that was predicted after hurricane sandy, a lot of people lost their cars it was predicted that the auto industry might end up benefiting from that. bottom line as we await these numbers it will tell a story how the economy is
the december jobs report will be released today and in spite of the challenges of the fiscal cliff and hurricane sandy, economists are predicting 150,000 new jobs. that will remain at 7.7% unemployment. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with more on this. >> reporter: mara, good morning. holiday hiring and shopping could also have some play into all that. we'll know in about an hour and a half what those new job numbers look like. 150, 160,000 new jobs is what we're hearing. but the...
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i think there's -- >> a fiscal cliff debate right about now. >> this is a huge study. the department of justice program that provides grants to local law enforcement to hire more police, i think that program could easily be 20 or 30 times its current billion dollar a year size. i think that would be one of the most productive things the federal government can do to really make progress in this area. >> we agree, i think what the professor just outlined in the latter part of what he said, go after illegal gun markets. by a legal we're not talking about five or 10 among law-abiding citizen. we're talking about selling gu guns, people are engaged in gun sales -- without any interpretation of the law. and go after criminals, people with records who are carrying guns illegally. that's been done in cooperation with the u.s. attorney here in chicago. then recently affect -- that's i think the important thing is to find ways to go after the criminals here. what i'm afraid we're going to do with things like the assault weapons ban, limits on magazines come is you're going to do
i think there's -- >> a fiscal cliff debate right about now. >> this is a huge study. the department of justice program that provides grants to local law enforcement to hire more police, i think that program could easily be 20 or 30 times its current billion dollar a year size. i think that would be one of the most productive things the federal government can do to really make progress in this area. >> we agree, i think what the professor just outlined in the latter part of...
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krystal, the fiscal cliff fight may be over but we heard many of them looking forward to a debt ceiling fight where medicare and taxes will be fought over. do these people not learn anything from 2011 when the credit worthiness of this nation was downgraded and markets crashed because of what they were doing? >> well, apparently not. and i'm glad you frame it that way. i feel like a lot of the discussion has just assumed that it's appropriate to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip. i mean, you are threatening default. you are threatening a worldwide global economic calamity. and republicans now just as a matter of business think this is okay to do and that there's not going to be any pushback. i think that they fundamentally miscalculate there. because not only are you doing something hugely unpopular by holding the country hostage over the debt ceiling, but in order to cut social security and medicare benefits? >> oh, yes. >> i think that is hugely unpopular. they're not going to be let off the hook by spelling out exactly what they want to cut and how. i don't see it going down
krystal, the fiscal cliff fight may be over but we heard many of them looking forward to a debt ceiling fight where medicare and taxes will be fought over. do these people not learn anything from 2011 when the credit worthiness of this nation was downgraded and markets crashed because of what they were doing? >> well, apparently not. and i'm glad you frame it that way. i feel like a lot of the discussion has just assumed that it's appropriate to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip....
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cliff. they're going to ask, the arctic melted in 2012 and then what did you do? and this is the chance to do the right thing. >> woodruff: the keystone project has been pending for more than four years. in 2011, the president called for further study. but supporters of the multibillion dollar pipeline have argued it will create thousands of jobs and reduce reliance on oil from the middle east. month, 44 republicans in the u.s. senate joine by nine democrats called for the president to approve keystone. mr. obama has given no direct signal about his intentions. but in his state of the union address last week, he promised action on the broader climate issue. >> the last four years our mission of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen. but for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. >> woodruff: to that end, the administration is also mulling tougher rules to curb emissions from coal-fired plants in a push toward
cliff. they're going to ask, the arctic melted in 2012 and then what did you do? and this is the chance to do the right thing. >> woodruff: the keystone project has been pending for more than four years. in 2011, the president called for further study. but supporters of the multibillion dollar pipeline have argued it will create thousands of jobs and reduce reliance on oil from the middle east. month, 44 republicans in the u.s. senate joine by nine democrats called for the president to...
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some work apparently got done last night on this whole fiscal cliff business. so that's a bit of good news as we start the morning at 4:25. >>> good morning to you. it's wednesday, january 2nd, 2013, i'm wisdom martin. >> i'm sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. >>> we'll get to the fiscal cliff deal in just a second. first let's check in with tucker and get the latest on our weather. hey, tucker, it's cold. >> yeah. good morning, yeah. it's going to be a chilly day. we've had a cold front that's driving through the area as we speak and that can be responsible for some chilly temperatures around here for the next couple days. hour high will only be about 40 and overnight lows in the 20s. there's satellite and radar. we have a leftover shower, even some light snow showers to the south and east this morning. you got to get down into southern maryland, down across the bay here, down towards salisbury and ocean city, finding a couple light sprinkles and showers. that's the back edge of the front. still dealing with clouds out there too, but the trend will
some work apparently got done last night on this whole fiscal cliff business. so that's a bit of good news as we start the morning at 4:25. >>> good morning to you. it's wednesday, january 2nd, 2013, i'm wisdom martin. >> i'm sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. >>> we'll get to the fiscal cliff deal in just a second. first let's check in with tucker and get the latest on our weather. hey, tucker, it's cold. >> yeah. good morning, yeah. it's going to be a...
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and the fact that employment growth continued about the same pace despite concerns about the fiscal cliff actually is also a good sign. >> jennifer: all right. well, we really appreciate always your great incites always bringing hope and positive outlook for the future despite what we're facing in congress. up next, well poor john boehner, shuffling along with his head down, kicking a pebble muttering how come all of the democrats like nancy and none of the republicans like me? it's not fair. well, stephanie miller is going to join me with some counsel for this increasingly forloern figure after this. party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ ryon ] eating shrimp at red lobster is a fantastic experience. 30 shrimp for $11.99. i can't imagine anything better. you're getting a ton of shrimp and it tastes really good! [ male announcer ] hurry in to red lobster's 30 shrimp for j
and the fact that employment growth continued about the same pace despite concerns about the fiscal cliff actually is also a good sign. >> jennifer: all right. well, we really appreciate always your great incites always bringing hope and positive outlook for the future despite what we're facing in congress. up next, well poor john boehner, shuffling along with his head down, kicking a pebble muttering how come all of the democrats like nancy and none of the republicans like me? it's not...
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why did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal? >> thank goodness i didn't vote yes and then come to this show. i think you are right on, governor. you have some good things. we want to lock in our tax rates, bring certainty to those. we avoided the dairy cliff, that was a good thing, but we didn't cut spending. we extended the unemployment insurance and will spend another $30 billion in the next year. we have to get serious about spending reform. i think to your point, who are the real victims of this policy? it's not -- it's not anyone in this generation. it is the little kids, preschoolers, kindergartners, the second graders. they will inherit a lower standard of living from the fiscaller responsibility of politicians today. we have to get our act together. we borrow 43 cents of every dollar we spend. if you don't have pomtitions that are willing to stand up to the president, who has no interest in reforming the way we spend. his first proposal to us was to borrow, to tax $1.6 trillion. and then not reduce the deficit but to add
why did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal? >> thank goodness i didn't vote yes and then come to this show. i think you are right on, governor. you have some good things. we want to lock in our tax rates, bring certainty to those. we avoided the dairy cliff, that was a good thing, but we didn't cut spending. we extended the unemployment insurance and will spend another $30 billion in the next year. we have to get serious about spending reform. i think to your point, who are the real...
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winds and fiscal cliff and stuff like that, you're being caution right here? >> a little overdone to the upside. from those who talk to the technical side, a little more room to the upside but this kind of momentum to the upside scares a trader like me. a little bit nervous we can hold on to this kind of movement so i would not be surprised to see us come off a little bit tomorrow. >> so what is the thinking right now after last night's vote? is it about the tax bill last night, or is something else going on here? >> this was the relief rally that that mess was finally over, and we never have to say fiscal cliff again. >> from your lips, right? we can only hope. thanks, ben. see you later. we are going out, and we are very close to a 300-point gain, the best gain for the market in about four or five years with the dow up 296 points as we head towards the second hour. got wilbur ross joining us and more members of congress as well. stay tuned. >>> nearly a 300-point day on the dow jones industrial average. welcome to the "closing bell." i'm kelly evans in for m
winds and fiscal cliff and stuff like that, you're being caution right here? >> a little overdone to the upside. from those who talk to the technical side, a little more room to the upside but this kind of momentum to the upside scares a trader like me. a little bit nervous we can hold on to this kind of movement so i would not be surprised to see us come off a little bit tomorrow. >> so what is the thinking right now after last night's vote? is it about the tax bill last night, or...
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cliff battle over what to do about the debt ceiling right in the middle of all of those negotiations, a good friend from chicago making her first visit in studio we are pleased to welcome congress woman january schakowsky. >> great to look in your face. >> not that bad? >> no. it's very good. >> we are joined by evan mcmorris-santoro who is here as a friend of bill from talking points memo. if you see him lurking around the halls of congress trying to stir up trouble. even before the set of relations today, the nra struck a blow last night. i think a pretty low blow where their recommendation, of course, is that the answer to the newtown tragedy was to give every teacher in america a gun, to arm every teacher in america. >> that's right. >> the president said he wasn't too impressed by that solution. the nra struck back yesterday, calling the president in this ad an elitist hypocrite because he has secret service protection for his daughters and not every american parent does. here is what that ad sounds like: are the president's kids more imports than yours? why is he skeptical abou
cliff battle over what to do about the debt ceiling right in the middle of all of those negotiations, a good friend from chicago making her first visit in studio we are pleased to welcome congress woman january schakowsky. >> great to look in your face. >> not that bad? >> no. it's very good. >> we are joined by evan mcmorris-santoro who is here as a friend of bill from talking points memo. if you see him lurking around the halls of congress trying to stir up trouble....
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glide that we are on right now. >> to that end, you watched with interest the vote on the fiscal cliff with speaker boehner and congressman ryan and others all in favor of it, but there were a lot of republicans who didn't think too much of it. they have said so. how would you have voted? >> i would not have supported the fiscal cliff bill put through at the nth hour. that piece of legislation was sent to the senate over five months ago on august 1st. it should have been taken up by the senate. the president should have shown leadership in trying to move things forward before the nth hour. it cut no spending. it did really only raise the debt and add to our trillions of dollars that have got to be dealt with, otherwise we will mortgage and continue to mortgage our children's future. y am here to get things done. the biggest thing about the congress is we are doers. i have been a doer my entire and this is an important time to do something about this fiscal abyss we are in and do something about spending and debt. do something about entitlement reform and tax reform and these issues tha
glide that we are on right now. >> to that end, you watched with interest the vote on the fiscal cliff with speaker boehner and congressman ryan and others all in favor of it, but there were a lot of republicans who didn't think too much of it. they have said so. how would you have voted? >> i would not have supported the fiscal cliff bill put through at the nth hour. that piece of legislation was sent to the senate over five months ago on august 1st. it should have been taken up by...
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. >> we've learned that as the fiscal cliff showed us, this is all about giving cover to the more raucus members of your caucus, right? this allows john boehner to sort of move forward, provide a spoke smoke screen for people that don't want to raise the debt ceiling and get on without tanking the u.s. economy, joy. >> yeah, absolutely. i think that is the most important thing. i'm with ryan on this. you always have to provide political cover. the republicans need to be able to run against barack obama as the tax and spend liberal who keeps plunging us into debt. this would allow them to do that and still not blow up the economy. i mean, the only thing here that we know for certain is that they are going to raise the debt limit. they're going to do it. they know it. we know it. it's just a matter of how messy it's going to be before that. the way that you know republicans many my opinion are not serious, where is their list of things? if spending is such a horrible thing and we have a spending problem, not a debt problem, show us your list. what is it you would like to cut? let's see it.
. >> we've learned that as the fiscal cliff showed us, this is all about giving cover to the more raucus members of your caucus, right? this allows john boehner to sort of move forward, provide a spoke smoke screen for people that don't want to raise the debt ceiling and get on without tanking the u.s. economy, joy. >> yeah, absolutely. i think that is the most important thing. i'm with ryan on this. you always have to provide political cover. the republicans need to be able to run...
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cliff talks that we had right at the beginning of the new year, tamron. so, president obama said, look, we have really cut a lot of spending. there's more that he would like to be able to do but that it would be ludicrous to suggest there's no spending cut over the last year and a half. >> let's play the president's answer to the question over who would be blamed if we actually see a shutdown. this is his answer a short time ago. >> i suspect that the american people would blame all of washington for not being able to get the act together. >> ta-da! blame everybody in that town excludeing you, of course, mark. but the reality of the situation is that it would be enough blame to go around. president bringing up medicare and social security, as well. being concerned of what do you cut and who ends up hurt in all of this? what's the likely next step given the reaction from speaker boehner and senator mitch mcconnell minutes after the president's remarks? >> tamron, i mean, most likely we have a brinksmanship and every type of issue there is. president obama
cliff talks that we had right at the beginning of the new year, tamron. so, president obama said, look, we have really cut a lot of spending. there's more that he would like to be able to do but that it would be ludicrous to suggest there's no spending cut over the last year and a half. >> let's play the president's answer to the question over who would be blamed if we actually see a shutdown. this is his answer a short time ago. >> i suspect that the american people would blame all...
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all right up next here on our fiscal cliff hangers and spruced up job numbers that's a break in the sort of abby martin that's coming your way just a couple of minutes. ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the enery proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorify violence revenge and torture when someone is gettin
all right up next here on our fiscal cliff hangers and spruced up job numbers that's a break in the sort of abby martin that's coming your way just a couple of minutes. ron paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the enery proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to...
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why did you vote against the fiscal cliff. >> thank goodness i didn't the show. i think you're right on though, governor, on balance, i mean, had good things able to lock in our tax rates and bring certainty to those, and avoided the dairy cliff and that was a good thing, but on balance we dependent cut spending and we're going to spend another 30 billion dollars in the next year and we have to get serious about spending reform and i think to your point, i mean, who are the real victims of this policy? it's not -- it's not anyone in this generation, it's a little kid, it's our preschoolers, kindergarteners and second graders, they're the ones that are going to inherit a lower standard of living from the fiscal irresponsibility of politicians today. we have to get our act together. and we borrow 43 cents of every dollar that we spend. and if you don't have politicians who are willing to stand up to the president, who has no interest in reforming the way we spend, his first proposal to us was to borrow, to tax 1.6 trillion dollars and then not reduce the deficit, b
why did you vote against the fiscal cliff. >> thank goodness i didn't the show. i think you're right on though, governor, on balance, i mean, had good things able to lock in our tax rates and bring certainty to those, and avoided the dairy cliff and that was a good thing, but on balance we dependent cut spending and we're going to spend another 30 billion dollars in the next year and we have to get serious about spending reform and i think to your point, i mean, who are the real victims...
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talk about the fiscal cliff that's coming. you know, the nonsense was december 31st that was the fiscal cliff. you want to see the cliff? the debt ceiling. right? the debt ceiling -- liz: again? >> next month is starts. liz: what's that do -- >> the republicans are not going to give. they are going to say i gave you tax hikes. i want to see spending cuts. when obama says i'm not giving you spending cuts without more tax hikes, you will see the republicans cross their arms and say, i'm not playing. we're going off that cliff. liz: what is the trade if that is, indeed, the scenario? >> sell long term treasuries. they are a bad deal. i don't know if you saw these reports on the coin? have you seen that? think about it. imagine if the government printed a trillion dollars and stuck it in the treasury and said, oh, there's a trillion less. that's so irrational, or a country like ours crossing arms saying we are not going to pay. that's so irrational. that means one thing, long term interest rates up; right? bond prices down. you wi
talk about the fiscal cliff that's coming. you know, the nonsense was december 31st that was the fiscal cliff. you want to see the cliff? the debt ceiling. right? the debt ceiling -- liz: again? >> next month is starts. liz: what's that do -- >> the republicans are not going to give. they are going to say i gave you tax hikes. i want to see spending cuts. when obama says i'm not giving you spending cuts without more tax hikes, you will see the republicans cross their arms and say,...
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but right after the presidential election was over, we got right back into the storms with the fiscal cliff crisis. and everybody struggled so mightily with the cliff as a metaphor. it would have been much easier if we just named it. it starts with d at this point, right? so how about deidre. already we have aaron, bilbo, carlito and deidre. and now we're sitting in the middle of the sequester thing, which i declare it will no longer be called the sequester. let us call it earl. it starts with e. the half the fact that nobody cares is nobody can remember the word sequester. and half the people who cannot remember sequester cannot spell it and the other half cannot define it. the sequester crisis? no wonder nobody cares. hence it is political storm earl, the fifth storm of the season. earl is expected to be a damaging storm. economically, earl is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, jobs in every state in the nation. so far the republican position on earl is that it is going to be devastating. and also, woo! let's do it, bring on earl. look at this press release from the rep
but right after the presidential election was over, we got right back into the storms with the fiscal cliff crisis. and everybody struggled so mightily with the cliff as a metaphor. it would have been much easier if we just named it. it starts with d at this point, right? so how about deidre. already we have aaron, bilbo, carlito and deidre. and now we're sitting in the middle of the sequester thing, which i declare it will no longer be called the sequester. let us call it earl. it starts with...
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>> steve: fiscal cliff. >> juliet: okay. you're right. it's thrown out. lake superior state university, they said these are the worst that should be banned from the english language. fiscal cliff, spoiler alert,. >> steve: i like that one. >> juliet: bucket list. trending. and brian and i had no idea what this is, yolo. >> steve: you only live once, baby. >> juliet: or you lob. >> steve: time for sports. >> brian: it was a bad day for the country yesterday because you talk about a fiscal cliff and the markets reacting and it was bad to be an nfl coach that didn't make the playoffs. every time you turn around, someone is getting fired. seven coaches fired, five gm's fired. just in one day in 2012. the last day of 2012. among the casualties, chargers coach turner, eagles coach, expected months ago. bears coach, smith. the bills, browns and cardinals said good-bye to theirs. this is the fun part. fox sports.com learned the bears and eagles are looking at offensive coordinator of the broncos who helped peyton manning transform his career, as well as tim tebow
>> steve: fiscal cliff. >> juliet: okay. you're right. it's thrown out. lake superior state university, they said these are the worst that should be banned from the english language. fiscal cliff, spoiler alert,. >> steve: i like that one. >> juliet: bucket list. trending. and brian and i had no idea what this is, yolo. >> steve: you only live once, baby. >> juliet: or you lob. >> steve: time for sports. >> brian: it was a bad day for the country...